MINE OR TORPEDO.
FOUR BOATS LEAVE SHIP; UTTLE HOPE OF SURVIVORS. BODIES AND CAPSIZED BOAT FOUND. i The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, June 6. Hie Admiralty announces that the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet reports that his Majesty's ship Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener and staff on board, was sunk last night west of the Orkneys either by a mine or a torpedo. Four boate were seen by observers to leave the ship. The wind was north-north-west, wall heavy seas running. Only bodies and' a capsized boat have fcecn found up to the present. Tliere is little hope of survivors. Tho Hampshire was on hor vvjy to Russia*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11718, 7 June 1916, Page 1
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107MINE OR TORPEDO. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11718, 7 June 1916, Page 1
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